general notes. 
Ins, 165 
foretagen lepidopterologisk Reise ” ; Forb. Selsk. Cliu. [1877, iv. pp. 30, 
A list of captures, chiefly of local interest. 
On the Lepidopterous Fauna of Gudbrandsdal and Dovrefjeld ; W. M. 
Sch^yen, N. Mag. Naturv, xxiv. pp. 153-199 (includes remarks on 
Melitcca athalia and allies, and on several other species of interest). 
This author also continues his “ Fortegnelse over Sommerfugle funduo 
i s^ndre Odalen” ; N. Mag. Naturv. xxi. pp. 139-146 (282 species). 
Uussia. 
Notes on various Livonian Lepidoptera ; 0. A. Teich, S. E. Z. xxxix. 
pp. 323-328. 
S. Alpheraki publishes a list of the Lepidoptera of the Northern Cau- 
casus, with notes on various known species and varieties, and descriptions 
of some new ones ; Troudy Ent. Ross. x. pp. 3-34, 
He also publishes a list of the Lepidoptera {Ileterocera) of Taganrog, 
including descriptions of some new species and varieties ; 1. c. pp. 35-53. 
Notes on Russian Lepidoptera ; N. Erschoff and others, tom. cit. 
pp. ix.-xi., xix. & XX. 
Asia. 
Captures at Tiflis ; G. Brioniuga, Troudy Ent. Ross. ix. pp. Ixxii. & 
Ixxiii. 
Notes on the Lepidoptera of the portion of Armenia lying between 
Alexandropol, Kars, and Erzeroum ; Nicolas Michailovitch Romanoff, 
Ilor. Ent. Ross. xiv. pp. 483-495. Captures during the war of 1877. A 
small map of the district is added. Includes a new genus and species 
described by O. Staudinger. 
O. Staudinger has published an extremely important essay on the 
Macro- Lepidoptera of Asia Minor ; Hor. Ent. Ross. xiv. pp. 176-482. 
He first gives an account of all the various entomological expeditions to 
that country, especially of his own in 1875, including a full description 
of the localities visited, and then deals with every species known to 
inhabit Asia Minor separately. It will only be possible here to notice 
descriptions of new species or other important original observations. 
F. Trybom publishes a list of 51 butterflies collected during the 
Swedish expedition to the Yenisei ; (Efv. Ak. Forh. 1877, vi. pp. 35-51. 
A few new varieties are described. 
W. von Hedemann publishes contributions to the Lepidopterous fauna 
of the Amoor; Hor. Ent. Ross. xiv. pp. 506-516. 
H. Christoph publishes some notes on various Lepidoptera, &C., ob- 
served in the Amoor district ; S. E. Z. xxxix. pp. 201-219, 401-410. 
Notes on a collection of Lepidoptera from Wladiwostok ; C. Criiger, 
Verb. Ver. Hamb. iii. pp. 128-133. 
A second part of A. G. Butler’s Illustrations of typical specimens of 
Lepidoptera- Heterocer a in the Collection of the British Museum (4to, 
pp. X. 62, pis. xxi.-xl.) has appeared within the year. This part is 
devoted entirely to the Lepidoptera-Heterocera of Japan. 
Papers on Japanese Butterflies have been published by 0. E. Janson & 
A. G. Butler, in Cist. Ent. ii. pp. 269-273 8c 281-286. 
